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This fonds consists of 10 audio cassette tapes containing 38 episodes of "Mennonitengeschichte", Mennonite history stories in Low German by Henry Dueck and aired on Casa Siemens (Bram Siemens) radio in Manitoba Colony, Cuauhtemoc, Mexico. Henry produced these while he was teaching at the Steinreich Bible School in Manitoba colony, Mexico. See AC# 5261-5270.

This fonds consists of Thiessen's correspondence and various materials he collected while compiling his books. In addition to the correspondence and notes, there are three card files: Male Thiessens (and variant spellings), female Thiessens, and an alphabetical card index which apparently includes all Mennonites he found who were born before 1820 or baptized before 1840. The first file folder contains some introductory and explanatory notes by Hermann Thiessen. Some of the people he corresponded with and received information from were Katharina Thiessen, Fritz van Bergen, and Anna Andres.

File list:
MHC reel #:-----Box#:------ Contents:
976----------------- 1 -------- Folders 488-633
977----------------- 2 ---------------- 634-771
978 ---------------- 3 ---------------- 772-829
979----------------- 4 -------- Male Thiessens A
980----------------- 5 -----------------------B-E
981----------------- 6 -----------------------E-H
982----------------- 7 -----------------------H-J
983----------------- 8 ------------------------J
984----------------- 9 -----------------------J-N
985---------------- 10 -----------------------N-P
986---------------- 11 -----------------------R-W
987---------------- 12 -------Female Thiessens A
988---------------- 13 -----------------------A-D
989---------------- 14 -----------------------E-H
990---------------- 15 -----------------------H-J
991---------------- 16 -----------------------J-M
992---------------- 17 -----------------------M-O
993---------------- 18 -----------------------O-W
994---------------- 19 -----“Suchindex” A-Claassen
995---------------- 20 ----------------Falk-Janzen
996---------------- 21 --------------Claassen-Esau
997---------------- 22 --------------Janzen-Peters
998---------------- 23 -------------Philipsen-Vogt
999---------------- 24 -------------Wall-Zacharias
1000--------------- 25---------------Folders 1-90
1001--------------- 26----------------------91-225
1002--------------- 27---------------------226-313
1003--------------- 28---------------------314-424
1004--------------- 29---------------------425-487

This fonds contains legal documents related to the acquisition of Jacob Thiessen's estate, the division of his estate after his death in 1906 and acquisition of land by his widow Aganetha in 1915. Included are originals, photocopies, and some translations of the Russian documents into English. The materials show the distribution of land, inheritance practices, and a sense of life style of Mennonite landowners.

This fonds includes records reflecting the range of activities of J.J. Thiessen with one notable exception. The records of his involvement with the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization (later Canadian Mennonite Relief and Immigration Council) are largely in the files of that organization. The correspondence covers most eras and there are a wide variety of church reports, sets of institutional minutes of organizations such as the Rosenorter Mennonite Church or Mennonite Central Committee. Some of the correspondence is from relatives, and some pertains to travel abroad. There are materials related to the development of Mennonite post-secondary education in Canada and relief and humanitarian ventures. The largest section of the fonds is arranged in series. The majority of this section has also been microfilmed. Other sections include 19 volumes (Vol. 1135-1153) containing miscellaneous correspondence and minutes, and reports and minutes from the Mennonite Central Committee, 7 volumes (Vol. 1656-1662) containing reports and pamphlets on assorted themes, a ledger book, and another volume of assorted items. The fonds also contains several maps pertaining to Mennonite settlements, a large collection of photographs, and one cassette.

This fonds contains 120 letters that Nicolai Thiessen received mainly from his father, KIaas Thiessen (1844-1918) and siblings of Schoenfeld, Russia, during the years that he served as a missionary in Java, Dutch East Indies (named Indonesia after 1949). (A few letters are from other friends or acquaintances.) The letters contain hints about the nature of the mission work and preparation for it, and also they tell of conditions in Russia from 1905-1917. The letters contain information about the economic, political, social and religious life in the Mennonite colonies in South Russia. Deaths in the community are often reported. There are several letters written a brother from the Forestry Service camp. One letter is dated 1924 and one 1935.

This fonds contains sermons collected by Jake Peters in conjunction with his research on the Sommerfeld Mennonite church, and three sermons based on the scripture passages: Psalm 22:11, Hebrews 4:14-16, and Luke 22:7-16 were collected by the Christian Heritage Library.

This fonds consists of the memoirs of Artur Laser, a German Baptist Christian, who moved into a Mennonite community as a child, lived and went to school in Tiegerweide and Rueckenau, Molotschna, was commandeered to work in a Russian concentration camp in 1940, and who continued to meet and live among German-speaking Baptists and Mennonites, as religious life began to re-organize after Stalin's death. The memoirs provide political background against which many experiences are described from 1933 up until he immigrated to Canada in 1973. The memoirs includes notes on each change of Soviet leadership from Stalin through to Gorbechev, and how it affected religious and social life in the Soviet Union.

The materials in this fonds consists of 17 small handwritten diaries of a well-to-do Mennonite industrialist who lived in the Fürstenland colony, south Russia and became destitute and had to flee to Canada after the Second World War. The entries are short but talk about his immediate surroundings and activities of the day.

The last will and testament of Jakob Niebuhr (1847-1913), Russian Mennonite industrialist (factory owner) from Olgafeld, Fuerstenland Mennonite Settlement, South Russia.
German translation by Elisabeth Braun de Wiens, Asuncion, Paraguay.
It outlines how his property was to be inherited by his three sons.

This fonds has mainly the correspondence (1945-1948) between Anna Peters in Germany, her sister Maria (Peters) Bergen in Canada and her nephew John Bergen, at first in Oldenburg, Germany, later back in Canada, and her niece, Margaret Bergen in Canada. Anna's first letter to her sister Maria Bergen after the war was sent along with a Canadian soldier stationed in Wiesmoor, who was returning to Canada. No correspondence was yet allowed between Germany and Canada at the time. Maria was able to send a letter to her son John Bergen, who was in the Dental Corps, as a member of the occupation forces stationed in Oldenburg, Germany, and through him contact could be made and letters received. For several months all letters from Anna Peters (Germany) to her sister Maria (Canada) were forwarded via John Bergen in Oldenburg, Germany.
There are also three letters which pre-date the 1945-1948 period -- one written by Anna's brother, Anton Peters in 1934, another by her father Abram Peters in 1933, and one by Anna herself as a 13 year-old, describing their dire circumstances having the last potatoes, etc. taken by the communists and begging for a dollar (1933).

This fonds consists of correspondence (1915-1942), letters of Nickolas Wiens and others (1887), an account book from the family estate in Russia covering 1889-1917 (most likely created by George N. Rempel's father), miscellaneous documents and information realted to the Taschtschenak and Brosdsky etstaes owned by Martens and Schroeder. This includes a plan lay-out of the Martens estate. Some of the correspondence has been transcribed into Latin letters. The transcriptions have the identification number corresponding to the copy of the original in the upper right hand side.

This fonds consists of a transcription of Rempel's war diary, autobiography, research on the community of Edenburg, published and unpublished Low German stories and poems including a partial translation of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. The material captures Low German stories, prose, and proverbs and provides context for Rempel's life experience.

This fonds consists of the diaries of Johann H. Schroeder, 1921-1945, totaling eight books. They document his life. The diaries were begun by Johann H. Schroeder after the negotiations with the Manitoba government convincing some people to emigrate to Paraguay. On December 31, 1921, he passed the diary on to his invalid son Johann (1891-1944) who continued the diary, writing about his father's activities. After young Johann's death the diary was continued by the youngest son Gerhard (1893-1959). At the back of the diaries is a list of people who have died in the years the diary covers. The eighth book is a book of letters.

There also is a collection of religious tracts, three of which Schroeder wrote.

This fonds consists of memoirs written by Walter Jansen regarding his ancestors, life growing up in Russia until the evacuation to Germany in 1943. Linda's writings consist of diaries and memoirs starting in 1946 when the family arrived in Holland, life in Paraguay and in Winnipeg until 2007. Walter's writings and the early portions of Linda's diaries (1946-1957) are reproduced and edited in the book Our Stories by Walter and Linda Jansen, translated by Walfried Jansen, 2010. The materials give a firsthand account of life during a time of rapid and drastic changes for the Mennonite people who fled from the Ukraine, and eventually settled in Paraguay and Canada. Most people in Walter's position and his age did not survive the war.

This fonds consists of eleven series:
-1) Correspondence and personal biographical material, 1946-1987,
-2) Official documents, 1936-1990,
-3) Speeches, articles and other material, 1955-1988,
-4) Family papers, 1899-1926, 1958-1988,
-5) College notes, 1934?,
-6) Home Economics files, 1956-1972, 1977, 1986,
-7) Community and church involvements, 1964-1981,
-8) World Peace, 1981-1987,
-9)Scrapbooks and photo albums, 197-?-199-?.
-10)Tributes to Helen Janzen collected by Larry and Jessie Kehler
-11) Daily journal, guest books and other materials, 1967-1992.